Why smart people are stupid
by Jonah Lehrer – Smarter people are even more vulnerable to basic thinking errors than less intelligent ones.
Older articles still being discussed
These articles might be a week or two old, but they're well worth reading if you haven't done so already ...
‘With friends like this’: Labor policies and the commercial, independent visual arts sector
[caption id="attachment_20019" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Australian Aboriginal Art is much sought after internationally, but Australians overall and Aborigines themselves benefit little from it (and even less...
The dodgy asylum seeker dilemma
Monday evening's Four Corners program about people smugglers gaining fraudulent entry to Australia didn't derail the Refugee Action Coalition Sydney's propaganda campaign even for a...
Rosen on the “New Textualism”
[first published at Prawfsblawg by Paul Horwitz.] Jeffrey Rosen has a new piece at TNR about what he calls "The New Textualism" -- originalism for...
Class consciousness
[first published at The Failed Estate by Mr Denmore.] The debate over media regulation has reached an impasse: In the one corner, the unrepresentative left-liberal...
Death at the global frontier
[first published at OpenDemocracy by Leanne Weber.] Since 1993 a staggering 16,136 deaths ? at the borders of Europe have been recorded by the activist...